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Walking Deadlift: Advanced Exercise

Former co-worker and good friend, Malcolm Edwards, is making a guest appearance on my blog to demonstrate one of his favorite exercises, the walking deadlift. The basic premise of this exercise is simple; pick up something heavy put it down, and than do it again.

The deadlift is one of two exercises, the other being a squat, that develops over-all muscular size and strength better than most other exercises. After performing 3 - 5 heavy sets of walking deadlifts, you will be looking for the nearest exit door out the gym.

Note: one should master deadlifting from a stationary position with good form , before graduating to the progressed version of deadlfiting featured in this video.

Extreme Squat

The featured exercise is an advanced version of squatting. I have destabilized the basic floor squat by incorporating 30 pound lifting chains and BOSU balance trainers into the exercise. Essentially a higher degree of balance, stabilization and coordination of the neuromuscular system is required, than would have been needed performing the squat traditionally.

Only experienced weight trainers who have previously mastered the individual use of each piece of equipment used in this video should cautiously attempt this exercise with light weight and a spotter on standby. Note that each BOSU balance trainer has a maximum capacity of 300 pounds, and they should be evenly inflated to a height of about 9 inches (do not exceed 10 inches).

This is a high risk exercise! You need to be sure footed. There is a lot of room for error when stepping on and off each BOSU balance trainer with a load. Suggestion: Bare feet will grip the rounded contour of the balance trainers and allow you to sense and adjust to the fluctuations in your balance better, than when you are wearing workout shoes.

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